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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	husband_n	wife_n	5,477	5	7.5435	4	true

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A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

¶ THE Nosegay of morall Philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours and now newely and succinctly drawne togegether into Questions and Answers and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed ¶ Jmprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson 1580. To the right woorshipfull and his singular good Lady and mistres the Lady Martin of London Thomas Crewe wisheth long life with increase of all happines and woorship I Was bold Madam for two causes to dedicate this Nosegay vnto your ladishippe The first is the gentle acceptāce that I know it shal haue at your hands who haue alwaies been a fauourer of learning of them that are learned The seconde is that comming out vnder the name of so woorthie a Patronage it shal be the better accepted of all men I am bounde also for twoo causes to doe the same first to satisfie in part the duetie which I owe vnto you and to shew some signe of the loue that I ow to you and yours Secondly that the worlde may see that alwayes a green tree is not fruitles but that that garden which before bare brābles and thistles if it be wel tilled will beare also sweet smelling flowers The slips hereof were set in sundry Italian gardens with branches therof I met at Paris which smelled so sweetely that I tooke the paines to transport them hither into England and to binde them vp in this small nosegay the which I pray your Ladiship so to accept as with 〈◊〉 humble hearte I present the same Thus wishing continually the increase of your woorship with al other things which you would either to you and yours I ende Your Ladiships most duetifull to commaund Thomas Crewe ¶ The Nosegay of Morall Philosophie Note that Q. signifieth Question and A. Answeare Q. WHAT is the parts of a true Christian A. Too loue and honour God aboue al thinges without offending him in thought woorde or déede and his neighbour as him selfe Q. What is that which most pricketh a man to liue well and godly A. To think stil that he is at the last end of his life Q. What is a court or city without vertuous men A. A darke night without any Satrres Q. What are the most enemies to mans life A. Anger excesse colde corrupted ayre sorrow trauell vrgent affaires and a greate familie Q. What is vertue A. It is an harmonie of nature wherein all good thinges accorde and a true ladder to mount to happines Q. What is the greatest want that an humane creature can haue A. Want of discretion and veritie Q. Wherein consisteth true philosophie A. In vertuous liuing Q. What is that doctrine which wee should necessarily forget A. The vice of reuengement Q. What thing is that aboue al others which the older it is the better is A. True amitie or faithfull loue Q. What is the best remedie against the feare of death A. To thinke still vpon it Q. What is the greatest spite that a man can doe to his enemie A. To excell him in well liuing Q. What are the thinges that make a man soonest to erre and to be deceiued A. To speake much and knowe lyttle to spend much and haue little to presume much and his power but little in satiable auarice and hope to liue long Q. How may one couertly dispraise a wicked person A. In praising him and extolling him too much Q. What is the chiefe ground of our saluation A. To beleeue in God the father and in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lorde and that the holy Ghost procedeth from thē both without whom we neither thinke nor doe ought that is good or profitable Q. What is the greatest iniury that a prince iudge or gouernour can doe to good men A. To fauour and pardon euill men Q. What is a mans truest freend A. His wisedome and prudence Q. And what his most foe A. His folly Q. VVhat are the twoo principall points that make a King or Prince reigne happily A. Liberalitie and Clemencie Q. VVho is father and mother to wisedome A. Vse is father and Memorie is mother Q. What is the thing that is easiest too learne and hardest to forget A. Vice Q. What is the office of a good housholder and the duetie of his wife A. The man ought to cary the burthen of care trauel and labour and the wife to bee faithfull in keeping his goodes and house neate patient and carefull to see her husbande doe well Q. What was the reasō that the Philosopher saide a man was more at safty in hauing many enemies than one alone A. Because in hauing many eche one attendes til his fellow doe the first mischiefe and none will begin Q. For what cause saide Diogenes that lame and diseased persons ought rather to be called Lordes and maisters then the whole and sound A. Because that beeing attainted with sicknesse they rule and gouerne their pride the fleshe the worlde and all vayne glory which the other doe not Q. Who is maister of the couetous A. He that is seruant of the liberall that is to witte Money Q. Who are those men that haue their tongue in their hearte and those other that haue their heart in their tongue A. The wisemen haue their tongue in their heart but the fooles haue their heart in their tongue Q. What are the chiefest vertues to be required in a man A. To knowe God and him selfe and to keepe silence and his his owne counsell Q. Wherefore is forgetfulnesse in many thinges preferred before memorie A. Because we ofte recorde that which we would not but cannot forget that which we woulde Q. Who is he alone that one may iudge and say hath liued as long as he would A. He that hath killed him selfe through dispaire and wilfully Q. What are the true pathes that conduct a man to pouertie A. Slouth gluttonie prodigalitie and mischaunce Q. Who are those that easily get fréends A. The rich the liberall the pitiful and the curteous Q. What are the engins traps hookes and nettes that soonest deceiue and take man A. Faire speech great giftes desire of gaine and little knowledge Q. What are the fiue thinges requisite in a common weale A. These aged Schoolemaisters vertuous and not vicious skilfull Captaines valiant and not cowardes learned priestes ruled and not lasciuious yong Damzels honest and not dissolute vpright iudges iust and not corruptible Q. What estate is that which maketh wisemen fooles and fooles wisemen A. Marriage Q. What thing is it that most abateth pride A. Tribulation Q. What kinde of folly should we iudge best A. Alwayes that which is shortest Q. From whence springeth all malice A. From lacke of knowledge Q. What difference is betweene a Tyrant and a good prince A. The principall desire of a tyrant is to bee serued and of a good prince to be beloued Q. What onely thing is it that cannot ware olde A. A lye for it must needes be discouered Q. VVhat are the

two things not according well for how can hee be good that depriueth vs of our libertie and will Q. What sicknes is most perillous and mortall A. That which commeth last and goeth away last Q. What is the true signe of a gentle Prince A. It is when in knéeling to him wee finde mercie at his féete Q. What is the beginning of all good and the ende of all euill A. Death Q. What is a singular remedie of all iniuries A. Forgetfulnes Q. What is the mother of felicitie A. Obedience Q. Who is the Iudge that condemneth himselfe A. He that absolueth the culpable Q. What is the thing that tryeth our courage A. Office or rulership Q. What is the true rest of our Soule A. Sapience Q. What is the onely thing that hath no néede of mercie A. Innocencie Q. What order shall a man holde being with great Lordes or his superiours A. Let him hold his peace or speake modestly and do like him that would warme himselfe but not burne Q. What is the propertie of a discrete person A. To choose the good and flye the euill Q. VVhat are the things that shoulde gouerne the world A. The people in good order the riche man loyall the young man obedient the olde man sage and the poore man humble Q. VVhat are the things that are got without buying A. Maladie ignoraunce disprayse and dishonour Q. What are the things that are alwaies good cheape A. The earth woordes will and lyes Q. What are the thinges to man most hard and miserable A. Pouertie in old age sicknes in prison infamy after honour and to be banished from his natiue country Q. What three things are those that are most strong A. The trueth wine and a woman Q. What is the greatest Empire of all others A. It is the Empire of fooles Q. Why is Fortune painted blinde foolish and deformed A. Shee is painted blinde because shee sees not on whom nor how she bestowes her benifites foolish because shee is vnconstant and deformed because she is meruellous dishonest Q. What bée the conditions of a good seruant A. He ought to be diligent true faythful and patient Q. VVhat is the first token of a good wit in a yong man A. Memorie Q. VVhat is that which a man will beleeue soonest A. That which he heareth willingest Q. VVhat is one of the greatest sorrowes that can betide a man A. That which commeth by mirth Q. VVhat are the griefes which will not be cured A. Those which come by the disease of loue Q. VVhat are the best rules for a man to keepe that will gouerne himselfe vprightly all the dayes of his life A. To thinke on the time past to order and dispose the time present to prouide for the time to come and to make inquirie of things vnknowne and doubtfull Q. VVhat are the things that we see passe before our eyes and yet cannot folow them A. Smoke a birde a ship and an arrowe in the ayre Q. VVhat is that which a woman most desireth A. Rich apparel credit beautie libertie Q. What are the thinges that a Gentleman should wholly abhorre A. To he a coward a nigard a lyar or a Tyrant Q. Who should haue the best office in a citie A. The best man and least vicious Q. What are the two things which neither time nor fortune can destroy in this worlde A. A good name and veritie Q. What is the greatest reproche the agouernour or ruler can by any meanes receiue A. To commaund saieth Aristotle ouer many and to obay one lesse or worse then any he meaneth vice and to bee surpassed in honestie curtesie vertue science and humanitie by them which are by séeming his inferiors Q. What is the soule of a cōmon weale A. Iustice for without it neither peace nor warre can be otherwise the filthy smell corruption that a body wtout a soule hath the same hath a weale publike without Iustcie Q. What are the true prickes of lust and wantonnesse A. Excesse in wine banqueting lasciuious words the conuersation of women Q. How may a man driue away all carnall lustes and desires of the flesh A. By hunger sobrietie trauaile labour and occupation Q. What is the dutie of a good Phisition A. To know the disease and to order his medicine according to it and often to visite his pacient and comfort him Q. What is requisite in a sicke man A. Obedience to his Surgion a large hand and good courage Q. How may a mā know him that is like to himself of his own cōstellation qualitie A. Let him regard saith Plato whom he doth loue and fansie without occasion Q. Why did the Philosopher counsell vs to giue nothing neither to the young nor to the olde A. Because the young forget it afore they be able to recompence it and the olde do dye afore they can haue time to requite it Q. Frō whence procéedes idlenes sloth A. From a base mind courage frō dark and obscure places from great rest and solytarines and from Melancholie Q. How ought a man to maintain his body in health A. He shoulde neuer submit him selfe to the rule of phisicke he should goe to the fields or country and there liue in sweete ayre and healthsome places he shoulde walke oft and vse sober exercises he should refuse no meat neither sweet nor sowre vsing no choler nor excesse and remember to keepe himselfe neat and cleane in his apparell Q. Of what thinges ought a man most to reioyce A. He shoulde reioyce and thanke God that he is borne a man and not a woman a Christian and not a Turke and to haue lyued in the time of the Gospel and dyed in a good vnderstanding Q. What is the best answere that a wiseman can giue a foole A. To say nothing Q. What are the best counsellours the most sage faythfull and of least cost that a prince can haue A. Bookes sayth Alfonsus king of Aragon for they without feare flatterie or hope of gayne doe counsell and guide kings princes and other men what they ought to doe and what they should not and they are not importunate nor greedie of reputation neither are they giuen to rauine and pillage as most part of counsellours nowe a dayes are and besides that if we will they speake if not they wil holde their peace at our commaundement Q. Why did Diogenes merily affirme that olde chéese and hard was better and of greater vertue than the newe A. Because in making him to cough that eateth of it at supper it frayeth so the théeues at nightes that they dare not breake his house Q. What are the thinges that corrupt Iustice A. Partialitie loue hate prayer feare and reward Q. What is the office of a husband towardes his wife A. To guard and kéepe her honour too féede and cloath her and to giue her good instructions Q. What is the duetie of the wife towardes her husband A. To loue him sincerely